Sean Michael Kerner

Container usage deployment models are leading to the evolution of a new classification of platforms, according to CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi. Polvi’s company builds a commercially supported technology called Tectonic, that includes the CoreOS Linux operating system, rocket containers and the Kubernetes container management system. The basic idea is to enable a Google-like infrastructure for […]

OpenStack and Docker are both open source technologies with a lot of excitement and momentum behind them. But where is the intersection between Docker and OpenStack? And why isn’t Docker Inc part of the OpenStack Foundation? In a video interview, Ben Golub, CEO of Docker Inc. the lead commercial sponsor behind the open source Docker […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is beginning its era as a standalone company with a new paradigm for creating and delivery application infrastructure. The HPE Synergy system is what the company is referring to as composable infrastructure and it aims to go beyond what rivals at Cisco and Oracle are doing with engineered systems. Gary Thome, […]

While Mozilla continues to give away its open source products for free, including the Firefox web browser, it is still generating growing revenues. Mozilla’s newly published 2014 financial statements show that the open source software group made more money than ever before in 2014, though 2015 will be a year of challenges. For 2014, Mozilla […]

Kiran Kamity, CEO of ContainerX, has a straightforward vision for his company: he wants to be like VMware’s vSphere, but for containers. ContainerX emerged from stealth mode this week at the Dockercon EU conference in Barcelona, Spain. In a video interview with eWEEK, the co-founders of ContainerX explain the vision behind the company and provide […]

BARCELONA, Spain – Docker provides an optimized set of tools that enables application virtualization but what about storage? While Docker includes storage APIs, it is companies like ClusterHQ and its open source Flocker project that are helping to lead the way to provide storage capabilities that plug into Docker. “With native Docker, the moment the […]

The Swift storage project holds a unique place in the OpenStack big tent, as one of the two original projects (the other being Nova compute) for the open source cloud platform. SwiftStack is one of the leading contributors to the Swift project and also has its own commercially supported SwiftStack Object Storage enterprise product, which […]

TOKYO – The numbers don’t lie, OpenStack is the most active open-source cloud project and perhaps the most active open-source effort of all time. In a session at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Jesus Gonzalez-Barhona, co-founder of Bitergia, detailed the quantitative state of the Open Cloud. Bitergia has been providing and analyzing data analysis reports […]

Make no mistake about it, Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) cloud business is growing — fast. Amazon reported its third quarter fiscal 2015 financial results on October 22, once again showing sky-high growth for its cloud business. Overall Amazon reported net sales of $25.4 billion for a 23 percent year-over-year gain. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits […]

VMware is a company in the middle of tremendous change as EMC is set to be acquired by Dell. But that’s not all that VMware has to deal with as the company is now also spinning out a new joint venture Cloud Services business with EMC. VMware announced the new Virtustream Cloud Services business, as […]